Hi Justin, Tim, Kimberly, and Others,
I'd just like to add that after setting up fonts and line spacing in
TextEdit you can simply save this setup as you own style file.
Interact with the "Styles" pop up button in the ruler and select
"Other". Then press the "Add to favorites" button and supply a name
for the style. You can check the boxes for "Include the ruler as part
of the style" and "include the font as part of the style". To use one
of your saved style files when you open a new TextEdit window, first
ensure that your window is set to rich text format (you can switch to
this from the "View" menu), then choose the template from the pop up
"Styles" button in the ruler. This will automatically set your page
to the line spacing, font type, and alignment options that you set up
for this style.
Actually, I think that another simple way to set up a style file would
be to simply import something like a Word document in the format you
want (double spaced, and with a particular font) into TextEdit in rich
text format, then save it as a specified style. I haven't done much
with this lately, but I looked up a set of December 2008 posts I made
in the old macvisionaries list archives that specified how to do this
for someone who wanted to set up a letter template in TextEdit.
Low vision users who use TextEdit in rich text mode can set quite
large fonts as their default font style.
Also, in response to Sarah's question in this thread about when a
ruler appears in TextEdit, she's correct that the ruler is a feature
of the rich text format documents and does not appear in plain text
documents.
HTH. Cheers,
Esther
On Sep 28, 2010, at 18:32, Justin Ekis wrote:
Hi tim,
This is helpful to me as well. I have one question about the VO-t
command for hearing the current text attributes. For some reason,
this command works fine for me when I open existing documents but
all I get is one of the voiceover sounds when I use it in a newly
created document. This is the same whether I use textedit, bean, or
my trial version of pages. Any ideas what I might be missing
On Sep 28, 2010, at 8:08 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote:
Hi Kimberly,
1. To set the line spacing in TextEdit:
• Stop Interacting with the Edit field.
• Navigate to the Ruler and Interact With it.
• Navigate to the Paragraph and Line Spacing menu and press it with
VO-space.
• choose your desired line spacing.
2. To choose a font:
• Either highlight what you wish in a specific font or this font
will begin from where the cursor is.
• Press cmd-t to bring up the Font window.
• Ignore most of the stuff but navigate to the Family Table.
• Interact With it.
• Navigate to your desired Font through the alphabetically ordered
Table.
• Once you have found it, bring the mouse cursor to it using VO-cmd-
f5. (Add the fn key if on a laptop)
• Press VO-shift-space for the mouse-click as focus doesn't really
go there without the mouse-click.
• Press cmd-w to close the Font window.
• Start typing and your font will be in your desired font.
Remember that you can press VO-t to confirm the font and style of
your text. Just play around some more, it will come to you.
HTH.
Later...
Tim Kilburn
Fort McMurray, AB Canada
On 2010-09-28, at 8:27 PM, Kimberly thurman wrote:
Hello folks:
I would really love to use text edit to write essays for school,
but most instructors like Times New Roman font and double spacing.
I've checked the fonts out in text edit, but it seems very
confusing. Does anyone have experience with this? If so, could
you give me a pointer or two? I would really appreciate it. I had
to drag out the windows machine and really hated every minute of
it! :)
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